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My son has just passed with Richard Hammond on lessons only. I would highly recommend him.

Have you found anybody yet? If not I would Recommend Owen Wales.

GPs are general practitioners, hence the name; they are not specialists. Specialist doctors only work in hospitals. Each GP surgery has a catchment area; you cannot just choose a GP because you think they are the best match for your health condition, you have to be in their catchment. If you are not happy with the one you are currently with, ring round the others nearby and find an alternative who is able to take you. Then, work with your hospital clinic and the GP together to maintain your health. As an aside, I have a chronic autoimmune condition and have had no problems with the shared care of my GP (The Gardens) and hospital consultant ( I am under Prof Heneghan). I visit the clinic twice a year, they advise my GP of any changes and the GP does my prescriptions (which include a controlled drug) and my blood tests in between. When there has been any queries about compatibility or suitability of a treatment, the GP contacts the team at Kings for advice. The system works perfectly. Good luck with your change of GP and give them any hospital letters when you sign up. A GP along cannot manage your condition, so you will need to ask your hospital specialists to set up a new shared care agreement with your new GP (this has to be done this way; a GP cannot set that up).

Back to the thread... The Gowlett's garden and tables out the front all close earlier than the pub and the landlord is lovely and very considerate. It is does the best pizzas ever and is very family (and dog) friendly. As for safety, my daughter worked there aged 18 and has had no issues walking back home after her shifts.

No it hasn't! It was nothing like this when I first moved here in 1992 (into a 2 bed flat bought for £63k). The area was full of salt of the earth, sarf London pensioners. Slow Horses' Lamb would have been more at home here than Amanda back in the '90s. People do write such toss about their neighbourhoods.

I know you asked for recommendations, but I have lots of families who would happily give a glowing reference for my tutoring. Will DM you.

Thames water did it. Replaced pipe up to the property that included where the leak was. Installed a cut off tap as well. took a couple of hours. no charge

We had a similar letter in August. Took readings before we went away for a few days and as soon as we got back. Meter had recorded water usage, so we know that there is a minor leak. We have started the process of getting it checked out...

The Kings accommodation on Denmark Hill is currently empty as it has Grenfell type cladding and won't be occupied until the enquiry is over and it is clear who is responsible for replacing it. Student accommodation is in short supply and ED station is not that far from this site. As for no universitites near, most students in London live in zones 2 and 3 because it is too expensive to live in zone 1. When I was at South Bank, loads of students lived in ED, Brixton, Streatham and Tooting. I'm in favour of this much needed build.

I would have thought that if the two flats are sharing the freehold, you need to be on good terms with each other. Looking at ways you could possibly prevet your neighbour from maximising his satisfaction with his home, is hardly conducive to this.

My husband scooped a large black and white cat off the road this morning. Cat had no collar and was found outside KwikFit. He placed it in the closed off part of Elsie Road in case owners want to retrieve it to give it a burial.

If you know Tom on Elsie Rd, his parcels have been stolen and the opened boxes have been dumped on Oglander Road.

Another vote for Kuki Hair - this time for Tommy.

The artwork wasn't even bolted down. It seems Mr Banksy likes to make his Peckham artwork very nickable. It's all part of the spectacle.

Yes, that would be hard on a child. But who would choose to do this? Surely, you would keep the child in his/her class until the end of the academic year whilst you look for a place at a local school? What is more, if the private schools feel that they would lose a substantial number of pupils through passing the VAT on, the sensible thing to do would be to absorb the 20%, or a large part of it. State schools have been subjected to about 20% cuts in relative funding and they have managed to survive and keep providing a great education, so there is no reason why private schools can't do the same. (In this area, they lost 10% of their income in May's redistribution of the education budget and have since had budget increases of just a couple of percent whilst inflation has been at 10% and staff salary increases of 7% have had to come out of existing budget). What this post is about, is a problem with private education businesses shamefully exploiting their customers (ie parents) rather than taking a responsible stance to look after the children they educate - ie profit before pupils. It's so sad that parents have been brainwashed with this 'scare-mongering' that their children will not flourish and succeed in state schools. If they weren't so exploited, they would be more willing to walk and the schools would have to suck up the 20%. I feel sorry for parents stuck in this dilemma, but they just need to bite the bullet and give state education ago - and enjoy the money they are saving! Finally, the comment about other European countries not taxing education conveniently omits to say that private schools are banned in much of Scandinavia, and are in general far less common than over here.